[monochrom] #mRIF: 640k ought to be...

http://bit.ly/9M5teq

[monochrom] Boing Boing features 'Wikileaks: The Ballet'

Johannes Grenzfurthner from Austrian mad arts collective Monochrom closed out this year's HOPE conference in NYC with a dramatic presentation about, um, Wikileaks. And unicorns. Link (Boing Boing)

[monochrom] #mRIF: Sometimes I feel like a free MP3

http://bit.ly/dd7jUZ (and by the way: there is of course a back catalogue of mRIFs here: http://www.monochrom.at/mrif )

[monochrom] #mRIF: Goddamn Government!

http://bit.ly/9Uk9wu

[monochrom] Caterpillars Crawl Like None Other: Unique Means of Animal Locomotion Has Implications for Robotics, Human Biomechanics

Biologists at Tufts University's School of Arts and Sciences studying crawling caterpillars have reported a unique "two-body" system of locomotion that has not previously been reported in any animal. In an article published online July 22 in the journal Current Biology, the Tufts-led team report

[monochrom] Beijing's new view of the West lies in the notion that the U.S. is no longer indispensable to China

Each week adds a new item to the growing list of grievances between the United States and China. The value of China's currency, arms to Taiwan, human rights in Tibet, carbon emissions, military spending, sanctions on Iran, cyber attacks, and, of course, North Korea have all made headlines in

[monochrom] #mRIF: I wanna see a remake...

http://bit.ly/9KI2Ux

[monochrom] monochrom: "Wikileaks: The Ballet" (feat. Unicorns) @ The Next HOPE Conference

Wikileaks? It's all about drama! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1i2-tA0dKU

[monochrom] The Gesundheit Radio

From the design duo Chambers Judd: Developed as a protection against dust which was particularly threatening to early microprocessors, the Gesundheit Radio sneezes every six months to expel potentially damaging material from it's interior. A bellows system extracts the dust from inside the unit

[monochrom] #mRIF: John Carpenter...

http://bit.ly/dqnVFZ

[monochrom] #mRIF: Corn

http://bit.ly/cHFq7Z

[monochrom] #mRIF: The Lost City...

http://bit.ly/8ZJarB

[monochrom] #mRIF: Tribbles are masturbation...

http://bit.ly/9INJwC

[monochrom] #mRIF: We serve it...

http://bit.ly/dCrxEX

[monochrom] #mRIF: No anal...

http://bit.ly/cHmPPj

[monochrom] Laughing Squid features hackbus.info (Community Wiki For Mobile Hack Vehicles)

Yesterday at The Next Hope in NYC, Johannes Grenzfurthner of monochrom announced Hackbus, a community wiki for mobile hack vehicles around the world. Here's more on the

[monochrom] #mRIF: The End of Days...

http://bit.ly/b5e3z5

[monochrom] monochrom is launching HACKBUS community site at #thenexthope

We at monochrom are launching a community site for the evergrowing armada of hackbusses. We need a root movement of doing strange things with hardware which was not intended (aka "hacking") because only when we use things in ways other than they were planned can something

[monochrom] #mRIF: Augmented Reality Racoon...

http://bit.ly/bRMAT1

[monochrom] #mRIF: Consensual magic...

http://bit.ly/daQI3n

[monochrom] #mRIF: I'd buy that... http://bit.ly/964VkS

http://bit.ly/964VkS

[monochrom] #mRIF: Just plain...

http://bit.ly/a5kwK1

[monochrom] #mRIF: Funny, but...

http://bit.ly/c0MRDX

[monochrom] #mRIF: Turkish Mafia

http://bit.ly/cDDZSH

[monochrom] The philosophical connection between medical ethics and hair loss

Raymond Tallis reveals the philosophical connection between medical ethics and hair loss. Photographic evidence shows that in 1980 I had a full head of hair, while in 1990 I was bald. It follows from this that some time in the 1980s I became bald. However, it seems impossible – or daft – to

[monochrom] BP and Ryskin's methane extinction theory

BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling operation may have triggered an irreversible, cascading geological Apocalypse that will culminate with the first mass extinction of life on Earth in many millions of years. The oil giant drilled down miles into a geologically unstable region and may have set t

[monochrom] #mRIF: Minimalism is...

http://bit.ly/dd7jUZ

[monochrom] A desertifying world needs utilitarian camels

In a desertifying world short of water, the utilitarian camel, and the ancient cultures that depend on it, offer a way to use land too poor to sustain anything else. The camel has long had a special place in the imagination of the West, from the Greek historian Herodotus telling a story about

[monochrom] The Magic Pill Question: GLBT and the 'medical model'

Here's a link to a commentary by April Michelle Herndon. She is an assistant professor of English who also teaches in the Women's and Gender Studies department at Winona State University in Minnesota. "Would you take a magic pill to make yourself straight?" That question came from an audience

[monochrom] #mRIF: Form follows function...

http://bit.ly/bIp7I9

[monochrom] Researchers use robot to determine how human strangers develop trust

What can a wide-eyed, talking robot teach us about trust? A lot, according to Northeastern psychology professor David DeSteno, and his colleagues, who are conducting innovative research to determine how humans decide to trust strangers -- and if those decisions are accurate. The interdiscipl

[monochrom] A 1000 years of economic bubbles, panics, and collapses shows that investors always think 'this time is different'

Oh really? The advertisement warns of speculative financial bubbles. It mocks a group of gullible Frenchmen seduced into a silly, 18th-century investment scheme, noting that the modern shareholder, armed with superior information, can avoid the pitfalls of the past. "How different the position

[monochrom] The Balance / Horizontal velocities

Link

[monochrom] #mRIF: Eucledian vector

http://bit.ly/dAKLhV

Re: [monochrom] mailinglisten.

> Die Bagasch wird scho ned aufmucken. wer muckt, spuckt.

[monochrom] #mRIF: Serving peanuts...

http://bit.ly/cqoqFx

[monochrom] #mRIF: Allah is...

http://bit.ly/a6MsQM

[monochrom] Letter to USSR Minister of Defense on the Situation in Afghanistan, 13 August 1987

Letter to USSR Minister of Defense on the Situation in Afghanistan, 13 August 1987. By Colonel K. Tsagolov ' To Candidate Member of the Politburo of the CC CPSU USSR Minister of Defense Comrade Dmitry Timofeevich Yazov Moscow, USSR Ministry of Defense The Afghan problem continues to attract att

[monochrom] Google Maps and Geopolitical Disputes

How Google's open-ended maps are embroiling the company in some of the world’s touchiest geopolitical disputes. One fateful day in early August, Google Maps turned Arunachal Pradesh Chinese. It happened without warning. One minute, the mountainous border state adjacent to Tibet was labeled with

[monochrom] #mRIF: Godzilla...

http://bit.ly/9n9EM3

[monochrom] #mRIF: The medium is...

http://bit.ly/9CJYr6

[monochrom] #mRIF: Dinosaurs!

http://bit.ly/9uokpi

[monochrom] #mRIF: Are these lines...

http://bit.ly/9piJBZ

[monochrom] #mRIF: Telly...

http://bit.ly/drH9cY

[monochrom] The term "America"

Languagehat on "America": I presume we all know about the first appearance of the word America on the Waldseemüller map of 1507; what I, at any rate, didn't know was that the text of the map and accompanying

[monochrom] #mRIF: Google Campus...

http://bit.ly/ckniz1

[monochrom] monochrom @ FAT LAB's SPEED SHOW Vol. 2 in Vienna

FAT LAB's SPEED SHOW Vol. 2: Who the fuck do you think you are talking to? One night group show. Participating artists: Margarete Jahrmann & Renate Christian, JODI, Greg Leuch, JK Keller, Michael Marcovici, Will Moffat & Peter Burns, monochrom, Evan Roth, Sakrowski, Gordan Savicic, Michael S

[monochrom] #mRIF: Cognitive dissonance...

http://bit.ly/aO7Vp1

[monochrom] #mRIF: Flying Rat

http://bit.ly/cOFp49

[monochrom] #mRIF: Vegan Satanists...

http://bit.ly/apTuZ6

[monochrom] #mRIF: Land of the Free...

http://bit.ly/bYdFzy

[monochrom] #mRIF: Patriarchy needs...

http://bit.ly/cM4WOa

[monochrom] Neues edition monochrom Buch: ZukunftsWeb

Was genau ist das "ZukunftsWeb"? Welche Chancen und Risiken birgt das Web von morgen für Individuum, Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft? Stichworte lauten etwa "Digital Citizen", "Web of Data", "Web of Things", "Open Government Data" und mehr. Internationale Medien identifizierten vielerorts unabhän

[monochrom] Towards A Theory Of Popular Culture, International Relations, And Zombies

There are many sources of fear in world politics -- terrorist attacks, natural disasters, climate change, financial panic, nuclear proliferation, ethnic conflict, and so forth. Surveying the cultural zeitgeist, however, it is striking how an unnatural problem has become one of the fastest-gro

[monochrom] Jefferson changed 'subjects' to 'citizens' in Declaration of Independence

"Subjects." That's what Thomas Jefferson first wrote in an early draft of the Declaration of Independence to describe the people of the 13 colonies. But in a moment when history took a sharp turn, Jefferson sought quite methodically to expunge the word, to wipe it out of existence and write

[monochrom] #mRIF: Foam out

http://bit.ly/cdY6qP

[monochrom] #mRIF: Say Yes to German...

http://bit.ly/9hzhYO

[monochrom] #mRIF: Pinata laborers...

http://bit.ly/9gMard

[monochrom] #mRIF: Twitter is a....

http://bit.ly/cL7IzN

[monochrom] #mRIF: Political...

http://bit.ly/990zOp

[monochrom] #mRIF: White collar...

http://bit.ly/9aepMo

[monochrom] French dissing, the scandalous literature that liberated a country

Robert Darnton has spent many years nudging us toward an understanding of this reality. Most recently he's instructed us that 18th-century French publishing had a well-known category, libelles, which covered many books that delighted newly literate readers by undermining the authority of the

[monochrom] #mRIF: Peeing off a...

http://bit.ly/bY5K9U

[monochrom] #mRIF: Dreams are...

http://bit.ly/bFwNvc

[monochrom] #mRIF: Happy Anthropocene

http://bit.ly/d3CoLA

[monochrom] #mRIF: Google ads...

http://bit.ly/bCZTTD

[monochrom] Maslow's Pyramid Gets a Makeover

What are the fundamental forces that drive human behavior? A group of evolutionary thinkers offer an answer by revising one of psychology's most familiar images. Abraham Maslow's Pyramid of Needs is one of the iconic images of p

[monochrom] How We Got To Sesame Street: Tim Madigan remembers Tim Cooney (1930-1999)

"My ideas evolved from long hours in local bars, talking, talking, talking, always about morality. People were always asking 'Who do you think you are, Socrates?' They said it with contempt, but I would smile and say, 'Thank you.'" – Tim Cooney The television show Sesame Street recently ce

[monochrom] #mRIF: Photoshop...

http://bit.ly/9yQGyc

[monochrom] #mRIF: Laminate contains no...

http://bit.ly/bJ6TQG

[monochrom] The Tome Raider: Accomplished rare-book thief convicted again

William Jacques, nicknamed 'Tome Raider' after stealing hundreds of rare books in the late 1990s, drew up a 'thief's shopping list', targeting the most expensive books that he could access. He used a false name to sign in to the Royal Horticultural Society's Lindley library in London before h

[monochrom] Rent a White Guy: Confessions of a fake businessman from Beijing

Not long ago I was offered work as a quality-control expert with an American company in China I’d never heard of. No experience necessary­which was good, because I had none. I'd be paid $1,000 for a week, put up in a fancy hotel, and wined and dined in Dongying, an industrial city in Shando

Re: [monochrom] bub! bussi! geburtstag!

(hab diese mail uebrigens versehentlich an die bagasch geschickt, aber ich schaeme mich nicht. unserem juengsten soll ruhig auch hier ehre zuteil werden.) On 26.06.2010, at 11:38, das ende der nahrungskette wrote: > alles llliebe, gratzer! > und jeden tag einen bagger von jesus!

[monochrom] bub! bussi! geburtstag!

alles llliebe, gratzer! und jeden tag einen bagger von jesus!

[monochrom] #mRIF: So much for...

http://bit.ly/aQZd9V

[monochrom] monochrom's GOOGLE WARS #1: Montreal

A theatrical RPG improv extravaganza for Montréal The 90-minute performance will feature Johannes Grenzfurthner, member of the Austrian art collective monochrom, as the Game Master, and four Montréalers from the creative scene as improvisational players. Loc

[monochrom] #mRIF: It's like a fax

http://bit.ly/9aT9e9

[monochrom] #mRIF: Wrong life...

http://bit.ly/d4450m

[monochrom] sorry...

...hab in den letzten tagen vergessen meine bagasch-beitraege abzuschicken... deswegen jetzt der ganze schwall auf einmal... wird sogar schon auf twitter bemerkt: ---cut--- moritz der @johannes_mono spammt mir gerade mit 13 (!) ma

[monochrom] The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain, 1700-1850

The Industrial Revolution is the inflection point of economic history. During all the millennia before that revolution, incomes were static and humans were poor­often hungry, inadequately clothed, ill-housed. But somehow, in the two-and-a-half centuries since humanity learned to mass produc

[monochrom] A Question of Incomprehensibility: Call for Papers

Great CfP by Eleanor Saitta (Structure Light Design Research Collective). It is now evident that postmodernism is dead. It has not ceased to function, exactly. The tools it gave us for the analysis of culture still work to the same degree they did previously. It remains a functional standpoint

[monochrom] The world has been dominated by Europe and taught by Europe and exploited by Europe -- and maybe Europe has had enough

In terms of the great implosion of the global economy which began on Wall Street in late 2008, the Greek financial collapse is a storm in a retsina glass. The sums concerned are trivial by the standards of modern multitrillion-dollar high finance, or indeed by the standards of the Bundesbank.

[monochrom] Gut bacteria in Japanese people borrowed sushi-digesting genes from ocean bacteria

You gotta love evolution. Japanese people have special tools that let them get more out of eating sushi than Americans can. They are probably raised with these utensils from an early age and each person wields millions of them. By now, you've probably worked out that I'm not talking about chop

[monochrom] William-Henry Ireland's Great Shakespearean Hoax

In the winter of 1795 a young, talented and cheeky man named William-Henry Ireland signed the bottom of a tattered piece of paper "Wm Shakespeare." It was the first of hundreds of notes, poems and plays that Ireland forged and passed off as William Shakespeare originals. The world was so d

[monochrom] United States of Dysregulation

In the late 1970s, the historian Christopher Lasch famously described America as a culture of narcissism. Today we might well be called a nation of dysregulation. The signs that something is amiss in our inner mechanisms of control and restraint are everywhere.

[monochrom] The History Of The Universe As Told By Wonder Woman

THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE AS TOLD BY WONDER WOMAN is an independent documentary feature that looks at female superheroes, warrior princesses and other icons of women’s empowerment in pop culture. Examining the history of fiction’s longest running superheroine, the film raises questions ab

[monochrom] 'Quantum Computer' a stage closer with Silicon breakthrough

The remarkable ability of an electron to exist in two places at once has been controlled in the most common electronic material -- silicon -- for the first time. The research findings -- published in Nature by a UK-Dutch team from the University of Surrey, UCL (University College) London, Her

[monochrom] We are the only animals that likes Tabasco sauce

Can Science Capture the Complexity of Human Pleasures? I'm a practicing psychiatrist, not a research psychologist, but as someone who follows the literature on happiness, I'm convinced that

[monochrom] The Second 'Second Sex': It's about translation!

Simone de Beauvoir’s translators and the many critics have turned their disputes into a play where each acts the role assigned by theatrical cliché... As translation contretemps go, the one surrounding French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir (1908-86) and her foundational work of modern femini

[monochrom] Oldest known images of Apostles uncovered in Roman catacombs

Late fourth-century frescoes of Sts. Peter, Andrew, John and Paul have been uncovered in the Catacombs of St. Tecla, underneath a nondescript office building in Rome. Arachaeologists used lasers to remove centuries' worth of calcium carbonate deposits which had accumulated over the paintings.

[monochrom] Red Dawn was a bad movie

As someone who was a child during the end of the Soviet Era, the following news items cause minor cognitive dissonance: 1) The Russian guided missile warship Varyag is docking in San Francisco this week on a friendly tour coinciding with a visit from the Russian President. At the same time the

[monochrom] #mRIF: Let's make heteronormativity...

http://bit.ly/dcbxVu

[monochrom] #mRIF: How much can you live...

http://bit.ly/9cY090

[monochrom] #mRIF: Signifier?

http://bit.ly/9X68Zx

Re: [monochrom] #mRIF

monochrom's Raw Image Formats http://bit.ly/monochromRIF At 11:49 23.06.2010, you wrote: > MRIF - What does MRIF stand for? q: http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/MRIF The objectives of the MRIF are to improve community infrastructure, the quality of the environment and citizens quality of

[monochrom] #mRIF: Communication cannot...

http://bit.ly/cMntP5

[monochrom] #mRIF: Steve Jobs' Soul

http://bit.ly/9Oc0xb

[monochrom] #mRIF: Zizek: Return to...

http://bit.ly/cooxBD

[monochrom] #mRIF: iOS 4?

http://bit.ly/cnWQ1b

[monochrom] #mRIF: BP is having a...

http://bit.ly/d5rbzd

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